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Reina Sofía School Of Music
The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary President, Queen Sofía of Spain. History The School was founded by Paloma O'Shea in 1991 in Madrid, in order to provide Spain with a high performance training centre for young musicians and to carry out activities to bring Classical music to the larger public. The inception of the School can be found in the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, which Paloma O’Shea created in 1972, and in the masterclasses organised by her from 1981 on in collaboration with Universidad Internacional de Verano Menéndez Pelayo, also in Santander. In the first steps of the project, as well as in the selection of the teaching staff, the School counted on the advice of great masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma O'Shea
Paloma O'Shea Artiñano, 1st Marchioness of O'Shea (born 19 February 1936) is a pianist, patron of the arts, founder and current president of the Reina Sofía School of Music, and founder and president of the Albéniz Foundation, which organizes the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain. Paloma O'Shea was born in Bilbao suburb Las Arenas, Biscay, Spain, a daughter of José O'Shea y Sebastián de Erice (descended from Irishman William O'Shea who came to Spain in the 18th century) and Basque María de la Asunción de Artiñano y Luzarraga, married at Concepción, Madrid, on 2 May 1935.http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=327222 Paloma O'Shea in a Portuguese Genealogical site She started studying piano in 1941 in Bilbao and later moved to France to further her music studies. At the age of 15 she won the ''Primer Premio Fin de Carrera'' and performed as soloist with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. Several years later she married Emilio Botín ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Moraguès
Pascal Moraguès is a French clarinetist. Moragues has been the principal clarinetist of the Orchestre de Paris since 1981. He has been a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1995 and a guest professor at the Superior College of Music in Osaka since 2002. Discography *''Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps, Thème Et Variations'', with the Wanderer Trio. Harmonia Mundi, 2008. *'' Brahms: String Quartet Op 51, Clarinet Quintet Op. 115'', with the Prazak String Quartet. Praga, 2006. *''MOZART Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...'', with Quintette Moragues. Euravent, 1992. References French classical clarinetists 20th-century French musicians Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 1963 births Living people 21st-century clarinetists {{C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Pérez Floristán
Juan Pérez Floristán (born in 1993) is a Spanish classical pianist. Biography and career He was born in Seville in 1993. He has been in contact with important personalities of the music world, both in Spain and abroad: Daniel Barenboim, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Ferenc Rados, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Menahem Pressler, Ana Guijarro and Ralf Gothóni. As student of Reina Sofía School of Music, he trained under Galina Eguiazarova. After that, he went on to continue his studies at Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Eldar Nebolsin, a former student of Reina Sofía School of Music himself. Juan Pérez Floristán won the first prize and audience award of the 2015 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. In 2018 he won the first prize of the ''Kissinger Klavierolymp'' (Kissingen Piano Olympics) in Germany. In May 2021 won the first prize of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, which took place in Tel Aviv. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar Nebolsin
Eldar Nebolsin (born 1974) is an Uzbek-born classical pianist. Biography Born in Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1974, Nebolsin started studying piano at early age in his native country. In 1991 he moved to Madrid to study with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofía School of Music. Career Nebolsin's international career started after his triumph at the XI Santander International Piano Competition. In 2005 Eldar Nebolsin won the First Prize at thSviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition Eldar Nebolsin has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Minnesota, Baltimore, San Luis, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Bamberg Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Orchestra, Deutsche Oper Orchester Berlin, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuarteto Casals
The Cuarteto Casals (''Casals Quartet'') is a Spanish string quartet based at l'Auditori in Barcelona, where all four members reside and teach at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya. Formation The Cuarteto Casals was founded at the Reina Sofía School of Music, Madrid, in 1997 under Professor Antonello Farulli. They have studied with Walter Levin and Rainer Schmidt in Barcelona, as well as undertaking graduate work in Cologne under the Alban Berg Quartet and Harald Schoneweg. The quartet quickly achieved international acclaim when it won first prize at the 2000 London International String Quartet Competition, and then at the 2002 International Brahms Competition in Hamburg. In recognition of Cuarteto Casals' growing international profile, in 2006 they were honoured with Spain's Premio Nacional de Música (National Music Award). A prize from the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London in 2008 enabled the quartet to purchase a matching set of Classical period bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celso Albelo
Celso Albelo (born 17 November 1976) is a Spanish operatic tenor. He has sung leading roles in many opera houses including Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Royal Opera House (London), Teatro La Fenice (Venice). Biography Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he got his firsts singing lessons from Pilar Castro Palazon, he continued at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in his home town with Isabel García Soto and at the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid with Tom Krause and Manuel Cid. He later perfected his training with Carlo Bergonzi at the Busseto Academy. In 2006, he debuted as Duca di Mantova in ''Rigoletto'' (Verdi) in Busseto, singing alongside Leo Nucci. From then on he has been invited to perform by La Scala in Milan (''Pagliacci'', ''Don Pasquale''), the Fenice in Venice (''L'elisir d'amore'', ''Rigoletto''), the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (''Stabat Mater''), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (''Guillaume Tell''), the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asier Polo
Asier Polo is a Spanish cellist. Biography Polo was born in Bilbao, Spain where he studied at the Conservatory of Music with Professor Elisa Pascu. In 1987-89, he won first prizes in cello and chamber music at the National Young Musicians Competition. Later, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music, and with Maria Kliegel at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne and with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Academy of Music. Polo has participated in master classes with Natalia Gutman and Mstislav Rostropovich. During his studies in Cologne and Madrid, he also studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet and members of Quartetto Italiano. Since then, he has appeared as soloist and in recitals in Europe, Asia and America. He has performed with Maria Kliegel and the late Alfredo Kraus, who, during his last years, invited Polo to appear as soloist in his concerts at Covent Garden in London and Maggio Musicale in Florence, Tonhalle in Zurich, and the Musikverein in Vienna. Performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadi Volodos
Arcadi Arcadievich Volodos (russian: Аркадий Аркадьевич Володось, links=no, ''Arkadij Arkadjevich Volodos''; born 24 February 1972) is a Russian pianist and composer. His first name is sometimes transliterated Arcady or Arkady. Biography Born in Leningrad in 1972, he began his musical training studying voice, following the example of his parents, who were singers, and later shifted his emphasis to conducting while a student at the Glinka Chapel School and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Though he had played the piano from the age of eight, he did not devote himself to serious study of the instrument until 1987. His formal piano training took place at the Moscow Conservatory Music College with Galina Eguiazarova. Volodos also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier. In Madrid, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music with Dimitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova. Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, Volodos has rapi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabián Panisello
Fabián Panisello (, , born 11 October 1963) is an Argentinian-Spanish composer, conductor, and professor. Professional life Panisello was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition in Buenos Aires with Francisco Kröpfl and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg with Bogusław Schaeffer (Magister Atrium, 1993, Diploma of Excellence and Special Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Austria). He completed his musical studies with composers such as Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, and Luis de Pablo, as well as with conductors such as Peter Eötvös and Jorma Panula. Panisello receives commissions from important orchestras and festivals throughout the world. He has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Susanna Mälkki, and Peter Eötvös and has worked with orchestras and ensembles including SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Araiza
José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950), is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during the course of a lengthy career. Born in Mexico City, he studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de México and later in Germany, with Mozartian tenor Richard Holm, and lieder interpretation with Erik Werba. He made his operatic debut in 1970 in Mexico City as First Prisoner in Beethoven's ''Fidelio''. Araiza initially came to international prominence singing in Mozart and Rossini operas, but in the 1980s broadened his repertoire to include Italian and French lyric tenor roles and Wagnerian roles such as Lohengrin and Walther von Stolzing. He was made a Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera in 1988. Now retired from the opera stage, he teaches singing and serves on the juries of several international singing competitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Eguiazarova
Galina Eguiazarova (russian: Галина Егиазарова, also latinized ''Yegiazarova'') is a Russian pianist and professor. Biography Galina Eguiazarova was born in Russia. She studied at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoty, where she was a disciple of Alexander Goldenweiser. Since 1961 she has devoted herself to teaching, first in Moscow — at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and later in Madrid — at the Reina Sofía School of Music (''Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía''). She was the teacher of Maria Stembolskaya, Radu Lupu, Yelena Eckemoff, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Marina Tchebourkina, Alexey Shmitov, Arcadi Volodos, Juan Pérez Floristán, Luis Fernando Pérez, Martín García García, Chih-Han Liu, and Pierre Delignies Calderón. In 1993 she moved to Madrid to serve as a teaching assistant of Dimitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
